[MATE] Ready for public consumption with 13.2 - really? (was: Re: [opensuse-factory] What is new on 13.2?)

22 Sep 2014

      On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, 20:21:02 +0200, denisart benjamin2 wrote:
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Le 18/09/2014 08:19, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :
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2014-09-18 8:33 GMT+03:00 denisart benjamin2 :
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Mate will be officially available :)
Any links/or more info to read so I will be able to write something
more than this phrase?
Thanks
All changes about Mate inclusion have been published on news.opensuse.org
https://news.opensuse.org/2014/07/31/mate-1-8-1-available-on-opensuse/
you've mentioned that link several times now and I actually looked at
this URL and also the Portal link https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE.
To be honest, I find this rather confusing. Here are my observations:

  a.  https://news.opensuse.org/2014/07/31/mate-1-8-1-available-on-opensuse/:
    "That means that next openSUSE version, 13.2, will include MATE
    Desktop officially! ... We have changed our repository scheme to
    avoid people having to change their repositories for each update.
    Everything is now unified in only one repository, X11:MATE:Current,
    so you don’t have to go through the repo-changing  hassle every
    release."

    and

    "To install MATE, visit our Portal  and utilise the one click
    install ymp files (simply click on the icons next to the appropriate
    version)."

If I read and understand this correctly, a user would have to use the
"X11:MATE:Current" repository, and installing Mate as a desktop
environment must be done by using the one click ymp files (unless you
already know which packages must/should be installed).

On the Portal site then:

  b. https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE:

    There are only ymp files for 12.3, 13.1 and Tumbleweed, but none
    for Factory (or the upcoming 13.2).

As a user wanting to try out Mate, I now would have to download the ymp
file closest to Factory and find out, which packages I should install,
but not from the "X11:MATE:Current" repository, instead rather using the
Factory (or later the 13.2) repository.

Or is there another way to install it? FWIW, there are no mate related
patterns, which I had expected...

TIA, cheers.

l8er
manfred

[MATE] Ready for public consumption with 13.2 - really? (was: Re: [opensuse-factory] What is new on 13.2?)

Manfred Hollstein